Planning, History and Environment Series

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1. Staging the New Berlin

   Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

   By Claire Colomb

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. City and Soul in Divided Societies

   By Scott Bollens

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on seventeen...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
3. Planning Asian Cities

   Risks and Resilience

   Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...

   Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Planning the Megacity

   Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

   By Christopher Silver

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Planning the Megacity examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century. In 1900, the colonial capital of the Netherland Indies, then known as Batavia, was a compact city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants. During the next hundred years, but especially after 1950, it was...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Remaking Chinese Urban Form

   Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

   By Duanfang Lu

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival documents, professional journals and her own fieldwork, she explores hitherto...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Urban Coding and Planning

   Edited by Stephen Marshall

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly...

   Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Evolving Arab City

   Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

   Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   "This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly ‘orientalists’ had over the topic; integrates grounded Arab...

   Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. The Making of Hong Kong

   From Vertical to Volumetric

   By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
9. Olympic Cities

   City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2016, 2nd Edition

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
10. Orienting Istanbul

    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, İpek Türeli

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an...

    Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge